Henry Cavill for new Superman?
The big stories that did make the cut this week include casting news for Superman: The Man of Steel, The Dark Knight Rises and the 23rd James Bond movie, as well as movies based upon Stephen King's The Stand, Gregory McDonald's Fletch novels, the trippy 1970s kids show Lidsville and... With the exception of the Marvel Studios movies, the emerging trend in big superhero movies appears to be the casting of British actors. First, there was Christian Bale as Batman, along with the supporting cast in those movies that is largely international (Sir Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Liam Neeson, Cillian Murphy, Heath Ledger, Tom Hardy). Then, Sony cast American-British actor Andrew Garfield in the Spider-Man reboot. British actor Henry Cavill (The Tudors, The Count of Monte Cristo) will star in (the movie that might be called) Superman: The Man of Steel. Superhero fans who have a long memory may also recall that Henry Cavill's name was mentioned in years past during the casting of both Batman Begins and the movie that eventually became Superman Returns. The casting news for the new Superman doesn't end this week with just Henry Cavill, however.
Zack Synder recently grabbed Henry Cavill for the lead in his reboot of "Superman," while "Twilight's" Kristen Stewart is now signed on for Universal's re-imagining of the Snow White tale. After Bryan Singer's "Superman Returns" failed to live up to enormous expectations, director Zack Snyder is looking to reboot the formerly lucrative franchise for Warner Brothers. Singer's casting of Brandon Routh turned out to be one of the biggest missteps for "Superman Returns," and bringing in Cavill should give a significantly different spin on the classic superhero.
Snyder was also looking to land Kristen Stewart as Lois Lane for "Superman: Man of Steel," but Stewart recently passed on the role. Other names being mentioned for Lane include Mila Kunis and Olivia Wilde.
"Snow White and the Huntsman" is Disney's latest darker re-imagining of an older classic following the tremendous commercial success of "Alice in Wonderland." The remake starring Johnny Depp and directed by Tim Burton earned more than $1 billion worldwide last year, paving the way for a horde of other Disney re-imaginings with built-in audiences.
"Dark Shadows" is aiming for a late 2012 release date and Depp is expected to play the lead character, an adventurous 200-year-old vampire. After some thought "Alice in Wonderland" to be fairly tame for Burton's standards, "Dark Shadows" might be getting him back into material closer to "Sleepy Hollow" or "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
Snyder was also looking to land Kristen Stewart as Lois Lane for "Superman: Man of Steel," but Stewart recently passed on the role. Other names being mentioned for Lane include Mila Kunis and Olivia Wilde.
"Snow White and the Huntsman" is Disney's latest darker re-imagining of an older classic following the tremendous commercial success of "Alice in Wonderland." The remake starring Johnny Depp and directed by Tim Burton earned more than $1 billion worldwide last year, paving the way for a horde of other Disney re-imaginings with built-in audiences.
"Dark Shadows" is aiming for a late 2012 release date and Depp is expected to play the lead character, an adventurous 200-year-old vampire. After some thought "Alice in Wonderland" to be fairly tame for Burton's standards, "Dark Shadows" might be getting him back into material closer to "Sleepy Hollow" or "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
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